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Involucre 10–15 mm. long, broadly campanulate; phyllaries imbricate, outermost shortly ovate to lanceolate and recurved subulate or bristle-tipped, middle phyllaries lanceolate with or without a curved apical bristle up to c. 8 mm. long, innermost to c. 13 mm. long, linear-oblong, ± expanded membranous and aristate or mucronate apically, purplish towards the apex, pubescent or puberulent outside, margins ciliate to strongly pectinate.
Leaves petiolate, up to 16 x 5 cm., oblong-elliptic or broadly lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, often mucronate, base attenuate narrowly tapering into petiole or cuneate, margin ± coarsely sinuate-or serrate-dentate, upper surface somewhat harshly pubescent to glabrescent, lower surface appressed tomentellous to pubescent or glabrescent, the hairs T-shaped.
Achene c. 3 mm. long, subcylindric, narrowly 8–10-ribbed, sparsely hispid and glandular between the ribs; outer pappus of short, narrowly oblong scales c. 0.6 mm. long, inner of caducous stramineous barbellate setae 6–8 mm. long.
A lax bushy perennial herb or subshrub to c. 2.6 m. tall; stems and branches ± densely appressed brownish-pubescent, indumentum of T-shaped hairs.
Capitula laxly arranged in many 3–9-capitulate clusters at the ends of branches, stalks up to c. 5 cm. long, densely appressed pubescent.
Corolla pale-mauve to whitish, c. 10 mm. long, narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes to c. 3 mm. long linear acute, glandular-puberulent outside.
